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Issues of identity and belonging are inseparable from the experience of immigration. Stories of immigrants, past and present, illuminate the human lives behind the ever-shifting global landscape we inhabit today.

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Justice & Human Rights

Understanding the Global Refugee Crisis

Students use videos and readings featuring US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power to develop a historical and human understanding of today’s global refugee crisis.

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Enrique's Journey

A Honduran boy goes on an unforgettable quest looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States.

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Explainer: Migration

This handout is a printer-friendly PDF version of our Migration Explainer, which presents statistics on migration around the world and defines key terms such as migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker.

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Exploring Civil Rights and Migration: 18-week Curriculum Outline

This outline provides an instructional pathway for educators to teach 18-week curriculum exploring questions of identity, membership and belonging, and the power of their individual and collective choices. Recommended for 7th and 8th-grade educators.

It is based on the following resources: 1) Unit: Choices in Little Rock, 2) Memoir: Warriors Don’t Cry, 3) Unit: My Part of the Story, and 4) Nonfiction Book: Enrique’s Journey.

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Five Facts about Honduras and Immigration

Explore key findings about Honduran immigration, including the recent wave of minors seeking asylum.

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Hope Frye's Testimony on Child Migrant Detention

Immigration lawyer Hope Frye describes the conditions at child migrant detention centers in her congressional hearing testimony.

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Las Patronas: The Mexican Women Helping Migrants

Learn about a group of local residents who provide food to migrants traveling through Mexico to the United States.

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Overview: What Are Borders?

Consider important questions about borders in the modern world with this article from National Geographic.

A group of Haitian migrants wait in line at the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (COMAR).
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Student Activities: Haitian Migrants at the US–Mexico Border

These student-facing slides ask students to analyze images and firsthand accounts of Haitian migrants in order to humanize the events happening at the US-Mexico border.

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Justice & Human Rights

Student Activities: Teaching about the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

These student-facing slides lead students through activities that introduce them to the experiences of Ukrainians forced to flee the war and raise ethical questions about the treatment of refugees in Europe.

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Justice & Human Rights

Student Activities: Ukraine: Discussing the War and Refugee Crisis with Students

These student-facing slides lead students through activities that help them process how they are feeling about this devastating war, develop media literacy in what news they consume and how, and consider the experiences of Ukrainians forced to flee the war and ethical questions about the treatment of refugees in Europe.

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Student Activities: Why Do People Migrate?

These student-facing slides lead students through activities that prompt them to reflect on stories of migration and learn about migration from El Salvador to the United States.

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